2 road accidents victims as announced in the news headlines of a private radio station.

I was much surprised on hearing that in one of the accidents, the motorcyclist died after hitting the pole fitted with the speed camera ( Camp Chapelon). When I waited for the next news bulletins to confirm the news before publishing my post, the words “speed camera” were not stated anymore. Surely some false rumors or unconfirmed news that were broadcast early and removed later on.

Anyway, coming back to today’s topic, you have surely experienced the unpleasant ride along the motorway in Soreze’s vicinity.

Since a couple of months, authorities have ‘designed’ a temporary road layout to deviate traffic while road works were in progress for the construction of the new highway.

However, when the number of accidents in that specific area started to rise, authorities reacted promptly by… decreasing the speed limit from 60km/hr to 40km/hr. When they realised that the new measure produced unsatisfactory results, they had to find another altenative.

So, instead of opting for a better road design for improved security, authorities have found the ultimate solution :

Threaten drivers with speed cameras

Personally, this behaviour and design of this specific road network can only confirm the incompetency of some people working in those concerned departments.

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Ex-SJC and UOM student, I'm currently working as a full time senior developer while during my leisure time, I love taking pictures, blogging and keeping in touch with what's happening on the net.
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Speed cameras around there do make me stick to the limit, et mo pa trouvE how that part of the road can be dangerous, actually with so much of curves, it is a pleasure to drive there, accidents are what they are.. just accidents, it is bound to happen, my sincere condolences to the victim’s family.

I fail to see how a temporary speed limit of 40km/h is dangerous? It’s people who do not respect it who are hazards. With all due respect, do these people have a problem with their leg or foot (or brain) so that they cannot use the brakes of their vehicles?

It’s normal (everywhere around the world) to have low speed limits in WIP areas. I’ve also used the roads you’re mentioning and did not see any problem with them or how they were temporarily arranged.Also, I’ve pleasantly noticed, during my recent stay in MU, that people have become much much much more civilized at least in areas monitored by speed cameras. So the authorities have my kudos…

Sad news but what about driving education? Speed cameras are part of that. You even wrote an article on the psychology of drivers in MU last year: http://www.yashvinblogs.com/good-driver/
Driving discipline is what it lacks.

Just for the understanding of speed limitation. Most people, and even people from the police force, do not know why speed is usually limited in to 40 or 50 kms/h. Its not designed to frustrate drivers. In a collision between a car and a person at 50 kms/h, the person has chances to stay alive, maybe crippled but alive.

Based on this, many European cities have limited their city-centre to 30 kms/h with no road marks.

” the person has chances to stay alive, maybe crippled but alive.”
Encore une fois, bravo. Reducing speed limits does save lives!
If you have noticed, these very intelligent authorities have “uniformised” the speed limits from 30, 40, 50 upwards to a single limimt of 60km/h in all secondary roads (called B-class roads by RDA), and sometimes 70, 80 and 90 on others (usually A-class or M-class roads). Without any logic, but certainly oblivious to the basic “survival rule”. Just remember that any collision with a human at speeds above 60km/h reduces his survival probability to below 50%. That’s enormous. Now imagine all the small roads of Dodoland where speeds were limited to 30/40, now fitted with brand new 60 signs…

“30 kms/h with no road marks.”
Wep.
Any one BMW-driving* lady whined about it…

Why do I have to mention BMW-driving?? Because I think I agree with this expert. BMW drivers, Audi drivers and luxury vehicle drivers generally (in Mauritius add to these Range Rover, Volkswagen, Mercedes and any car with +2,000cc enginess, with VERY FEW exceptions) are real a$$hole-attitude drivers.

Who would have thought that these things could actually INCREASE the incidence of accidents…?
I think that it depends on the context: France’s drivers have a similar mentality to ours: floor it then think of consequences, so when they realise there is a camera, they hit the brakes hard. In other countries where defensive driving is of prime importance, they slow down first with consequences of speeding always in mind.

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